Bread on the Hillside

In the summer of 1680, Scottish Covenanters gathered on a remote hillside near Irongray in Dumfriesshire, knowing that government dragoons were hunting them. They had no church building, no fine linens, no silver chalice. A flat boulder served as the communion table. A hunted minister named Richard Cameron broke ordinary bread and poured wine into a common cup while sentries watched the horizon for soldiers.…